Laura Jean

I may have locked my car and left the key in the door when I went into a store today. By the grace of the spaghetti monster, I still have a car.

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Netanyahu goads Trump into war by claiming that he has killed far more civilians than Trump has.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

the same CEOs who put out a nothing statement instead of actually standing up to ICE in any meaningful way? they don’t get to take a victory lap herev

We still need our neighbors back.

Image of text message conversation with "Dad": Picture of a car and steps coated in a thin layer of ice. Dad says "Look at our ice on everything". Author responds "ICE is dangerous! Be careful!"

When the boomers be texting and you cannot help yourself

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

I voted for Jason Chavez!

I feel like all these total votes are off. Are we sure all the awkward manilla folders were counted? My precinct and all the metro ones I saw shared informally were less than 50% Klob but all the official figures are way different.

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

who's* gawdammit

Perhaps I vote for a Bluesky edit button. That sounds like a governor that would get stuff done. But also humble, ya know

Okay whose the anti-Klob candidate for the straw poll? Like who are we all putting down to make a point here? Keith Ellison? Erin Maye Quade? Personally I'd like to pitch Jason Chavez

I deeply appreciate and echo every ounce of this rage thread

"JUST LET ME TURN THIS STUPID BULLSHIT OFF" really does not seem like that hard of an ask, Google!

JUST
LET
ME
TURN
THIS
STUPID
BULLSHIT
OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

I actually LIKE email categorization, a feature that has existed for years and which has never relied on bogus "AI" bullshit.

At least Microsoft let me TURN CLIPPY OFF.

I FUCKING HATE Google Gemini. I hate ALL this bullshit, intrusive so-called AI. And I *particularly* hate the fact that since we aren't using it, since almost everyone hates it, the companies that are sitting on the giant bubble are now trying to FORCE us to use it.

How many phone numbers does Amy Klobuchar have I wonder?

How many times will I get to reply 'lol no'?

What I find so demoralizing is starting with an end goal of finding a way to keep government open rather than finding a way to use the threat of shutdown to end ICE; Possible? Perhaps not. But "abolish ICE" must be the starting position. Reforms are just putting a cup full of diarrhea on a doily.

I love this so much, soooooo funny. Also I *was* voted Most Likely to Win a Nobel Peace Prize in high school so this feels meant to be.

Tonight's act of resilience was instigated by the children - we played "Titanium" roughly 47 times and danced around like loons.

(You see what I did there? I feel so much better that I am making puns. 10/10 would recommend)

Dear neighbor, It is not the time to let your guard down, nor is it the time to stop organizing.

While Bovino will be leaving Minneapolis along with some U.S. Border Patrol agents, there is still no specific plan that has been communicated to the public. 1/

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I am a transplant, but after 15 years, I can now confidently identify a Minnesotan no.

I am dying at this photo. Totally encapsulates a Minnesotan "no"

As an ex-vangelical, this makes me think of what I believe is more likely the real story (if there is one) of Jesus feeding the masses: he didn't magic that shit-ton of loaves & fish into existence from a handful, he drew on a community's good will to short-notice feed and care for each other.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis